On Sun, 18 Jan 2004 15:53:56 -0500, Ogden Johnson III
wrote:

Given the number of times the infamous "chicken cannon" has come
up in these fora, your attention is directed to this [Sunday]
evening's episode of "Mythbusters" on the Discovery cable channel
[8:00 PM ET, repeated at 11:00 PM ET for the left coast] in which
the intrepid Mythbusters team takes on the chicken cannon.

For a link between this topic & matters naval, consider the use of
down-sized versions of "chicken cannon" technology on model warships:

http://www.rcwarships.com

JM